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I clicked to post exactly this. I live on the Chesapeake Bay, and it seems like half the boats in the local Craigslist are of the unsinkable variety. I think
by bmelton 15y ago
I clicked to post exactly this. I live on the Chesapeake Bay, and it seems like half the boats in the local Craigslist are of the unsinkable variety.
I think what the article is really getting at is whether or not it's possible to build an indestructible ship, and of course, the answer to that is no.
It's possible to make a ship that is much stronger than the people it carries -- most ships are, but that doesn't make the people any less fragile or more susceptible to death, injury or drowning.
Submarines are perhaps a superior design for this, on paper, but generally speaking, a submarine isn't where you want to be if the submarine is in any danger whatsoever.
So yeah, unsinkable boat? Check. Unsinkable passengers? No check.
- mixmax 15y agoA friend of mine has built the largest homemade submarine in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC3_Nautilus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC3_Nautilus) and they're clearly dangerous vessels, exactly because of what you're saying: If something goes wrong you're under 100 feet of water with no way of getting out. Even though UC3 Nautilus has a lot of built-in safety there have been a few situations that I would consider much more dangerous than sailing a dinghy across the bay of Biscay in a force gale 12 storm.
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- tedunangst 15y agoUnsinkable passengers? Sure. Just make everybody wear drysuits and floaties. It may not be Titanic chic, but you can't have everything.
- ben0x539 15y agoIf you get caught under deck while the unsinkable ship is flooding with water and possibly going belly-up, that might not help you much.